Can’t Get There From Here

By Spose

On Happy Medium

Released on January 10, 2011

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[Intro: Cam Groves]

Everybody throw your hands up right now

And make some goddamn noise

Hailing from the state of oceans and lakes

Get ready for those good rhymes and metaphors

The state of Maine changing the game

Make music good for your brains

So open your ear lobes, this here's Spose


[Verse 1]

With no rims on the whip and no collagen lips

I rip through the state of Maine with the halogens lit

I'm not Rick but I spit Slick

I'm rapping and making the fakest of rappers who're thinking they're sinking my ship quit quick

All aboard!

From the state where they think we all mate with our cousins

With no indoor plumbing, Moose by the baker's dozen

We got lakes, ponds, deer on lawns

Puff upon chron', rockin' long johns

Spat verses over-purchased thirty racks of beer

Made peers laugh and cheer

Throw a hand up in the atmosphere

‘Cause everybody knows my name like the cast of Cheers

But they say I shouldn't rap from here

I made it finally

Puffed all kinda leaves

Wack rapper, time to leave

Rhyme's sick, Lyme disease

Pine trees, skate rails

While mostly white trophy wives rock fake nails at bake sales

And all the haters say, Spose


[Hook]

Are you out of your brain!?

Rapping from Maine!?

You must be insane!

‘Cause you can't get there from here

Or delusional

Please quit the beats

And retreat to the cubicle

You can't get there from here

You must've lost your mind!

I mean, those rhymes

They were fine for the time

But you can't get there from here

You're from the eastern-most, northern-most, boredom-soaked state

You can't be great

You can't get there from here


[Verse 2]

I'm from where teenage moms and their babies dwell

Where people downgrade from cocaine to oxy pills

Where the wives get beat and no one hears them yell

And it's not Compton or Brooklyn or ATL

We spend most times weeded

‘Cause the coastline's scenic

But the chances of succeeding are slimmer than a bulimic

Still I put my life in rhyme form and recorded it

On my debut and stayed true to my coordinates

No, never aborted it

Ask my subordinates

Since back when my weed had more seeds than tournaments

I'm going for the gold (as if that wasn't obvious)

And stopping Spose? That's like tryna handcuff an octopus

Woke up every morning wrote a new verse

Even if I wasn't winning I wasn't a loser

Look, if you want to excel like huge shirts

Doesn't matter what your zip-code is, just do work


[Hook]

Are you out of your brain!?

Rapping from Maine!?

You must be insane!

‘Cause you can't get there from here

Or delusional

Please quit the beats

And retreat to the cubicle

You can't get there from here

You must've lost your mind!

I mean, those rhymes

They were fine for the time

But you can't get there from here

You're from the eastern-most, northern-most, boredom-soaked state

You can't be great

You can't get there from here


[Verse 3]

They say you can't get there from here without magic

Well POOF! I Google Mapsed it, I'm there, maxin'

I-I I seen 'em laughing now I'm the main attraction

And when I die, they'll pour out all their Pabst in my absence

Steered off course, fuck your path, I'm the captain

Crunch time all day, serial with my actions

No need for lucky charms, just a bit of passion

To make it from where frosted flakes fall to relaxin'

Yeah I fooled fools, used tricks on silly rabbits

Did it just for kicks when I started out rapping

And I grew up in Maine so they said, "it'll never happen"

But we got the alphabet too, and I'm nasty:

Coming to kill it abilities

Some of the illest they ever did see and they love it

They haven't a crumb of my skill

And I'm sonning the dumbest of villains, I'm cunning

I stomached the summit, no vomiting from it

Above all the beef and the killing and bluffing

I'm bigger than something to bump when you're drunk and you're puffing your stuff, call me Spose!


[Hook]

Are you out of your brain!?

Rapping from Maine!?

You must be insane!

‘Cause you can't get there from here

Or delusional

Please quit the beats

And retreat to the cubicle

You can't get there from here

You must've lost your mind!

I mean, those rhymes

They were fine for the time

But you can't get there from here

You're from the eastern-most, northern-most, boredom-soaked state

You can't be great

You can't get there from here


[Outro]

Or so they say

To my man Cam Groves

Stiky-1

F4

And to them motherfuckin' Educated Advocates

Keep keep on

To Lab 7

Luch and Eliza

Just keep keep on

To my man Foodstamp

Keep keep on and on and on and on